Imagga and 6 alternative image recognition services

In a recent post on the newly introduced component of Wolfram’s language for image identification ImageIdentify Jordan Novet of Venture Beat conducted a quick test of ImageIdentify against 5 deep learning platforms for image recognition he chose. He selected “10 images from Flickr that seemed to clearly fall into the 1,000 categories used for the 2014 ImageNet visual recognition competition.” and tagged them with ImageIdentify and 5 alternative image recognition services.

As one of the very first platforms as a service, offering such functionality worldwide, we felt we should join this funny experiment and make our humble contribution, by adding the tags Imagga’s image recognition technology generated for the same 10 photos. You can try with your own photos using Imagga online image recognition demo.

We better leave the results speak for themselves. Please take all this with a grain of salt and don’t forget that these results are obtained for just 10 randomly selected photos 🙂

The fun part aside, we are quite interested to see soon a more comprehensive subjective and objective evaluation of all these services, including Imagga, with their pros and cons, on more representative and rich datasets, and depending on the way the tags will be used in different verticals and applications.

Competition is an important driver for every industry, so we are more than open to participate in such kinds of service comparisons and may even initiate such a comparison in the very near future.